350 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Most of the animals included in the above statement were shipped 

 to Great Britain, namely, of American animals, 77,143 cattle, 10,574 

 sheep, 454 horses, and 2 asses, and of Canadian animals, 24,589 cattle 

 and 1 horse. 



As a result of the inspection of the equipment of vessels carrying 

 export animals, statistics show a maintenance of the already low 

 percentage of loss of animals at sea. Of cattle shipped to British 

 ports but 0.19 per cent were lost at sea, and of sheep but 0.40 per 

 cent were lost. 



During the fiscal year 25,110 horses and 1,426 mules were inspected 

 and tested with mallein for shipment to Canada. Of this number 

 232 horses and 2 mules Avere rejected on account of having reacted to 

 the test. 



For shipment to Canada there were also tested with tuberculin 858 

 cattle, of which 19 reacted, and inspections were made of 58,783 

 sheep, 234 goats, and 39 swine. 



For shipment to the Hawaiian Islands there were tested with 

 tuberculin 130 cattle, of which 39 reacted, and the mallein test was 

 applied to 317 horses and 040 mules, of which 5 horses and 13 mules 

 reacted. 



INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE OF IMPORTED ANIMALS. 



Certain changes concerning the importation of horses and dogs 

 have boen made in the regulations known as Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry Order 180, " Regulations for the inspection and quarantine of 

 horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and other animals imj^orted into the 

 United States," with a view to strengthening the safeguards of this 

 Government against the possible importation with such animals of 

 the infection and contagion of animal diseases. The regulation gov- 

 erning the importation of dogs was promulgated in the last quarter 

 of the preceding year, and, in addition to requiring the inspection of 

 all dogs imported into the United States from countries other than 

 North America, requires that collie, shepherd, and sheep dogs shall 

 be subject to both inspection and quarantine. Under this regulation 

 87 dogs have been quarantined during the year and subjected to the 

 necessary examination for tapeworm infection, of which 26 were 

 found to contain varieties of tapeworm eggs or segments, none of 

 which, however, proved to be Taenia co&nurus^ the tapeworm which 

 produces gid in sheep. Each of the 26 animals was medically treated 

 and freed from infection before release. 



All cattle, sheep, and other ruminants and swine, except from 

 North America, have been, since the organization of the bureau, sub- 

 ject to both inspection and quarantine, and importation is allowed 

 only on permits which must be obtained from the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture prior to their shipment from the country of origin. The 

 regulations have likewise required that such animals be accompanied 

 by health certificates from the proper local authorities of the dis- 

 trict in which they have been continuously located during the 

 preceding six months, and by affidavits of the owner and the shipper 

 or his agent, showing that there had been no contagious disease of 

 live stock affecting the said kind of animals in the district from 

 which shipped, and that they had not passed through any district 

 infected with contagious disease, or been exposed in any possible 



